No Man Is an Island, But This Is The One I’d Be

I’ve been overly busy lately and feeling like I would sure like to be away from it all and be an island! Compounding this feeling is the fact that we didn’t have a summer getaway this year, but my friend did and recently sent me a postcard from her island retreat, Corsica France:

As the postcard shows, Calvi Corsica seems like a perfect place for me – beautiful ocean scenery combined with old European history – plus blissful insular isolation.

Here’s the back side:

Postcard message:
“Dear Glen. Once more we’re spending our summer holidays on the isle of Corsica. At first we’re in the Northern part in a beautiful landscape where you can go swimming in the rivers. Later we travel to the South, where we’ll spend some days at the seaside. Viele Grusse.”